It’s the question on everyone’s minds: Your PC can produce pretty decent audio without your having to spend a dime on new hardware, so why the heck are we advocating doing just that? Because you’ll ...

In an era where motherboard audio has reached a level many would consider “good enough,” the launch of the Creative Sound ...

Stereophile magazine's John Atkinson loved the Asus Xonar Essence ST/STX sound cards. They are, by far, the least expensive way of turning a PC into a genuine high-resolution audio source. Ex-movie ...

Dedicated sound cards may be far less prevalent than they were in the early days of PC gaming but they haven’t disappeared completely. If you grew up building your own gaming computers, Creative and ...

The circuit is aimed to build a computer sound card with input line in order to use a two mono stereo microphone. TLC272 – a precision dual operational amplifier with low offset voltage drift, low ...

Putting vacuum tubes in a PC might sound a little like adding a hand crank to a Porsche, but at least one company thinks it might be the future of computer audio. Taiwanese components company AOpen, ...

I've got a win7 x64 system that I need a sound card for. Who else is making PC sound cards other then Sound Blaster brands? I've have poor results from 3 of SBs line up, I figure driver issues mainly.

Before the release of the Intel AC '97 standard, computer sound was frequently an add-on feature. To use anything other than a small, monophonic internal speaker, you'd need to buy a card that plugged ...

The commoditised PC is the most versatile tool many of us will own, and since it has been around for a very long time it is also something that can be found for free or very cheaply if the latest ...

If you are spending that much on your headphones and considering a nice amp, I would reccomend splurging a bit and gettingan Audiophile 24/96. It has RCA outs I believe. Your nest best bet is probably ...

Soundcards used to be giant long 8-bit ISA things that would take up a huge amount of real estate inside a desktop computer. These days, for most of us, they’re baked into the motherboard and we ...